
Life without Frank, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart language in startling and original ways.

with problems: a dead boss, women trouble, and an uncontrollable case of Tourette's syndrome.


Lethem fulfills the promise of his earlier, critically acclaimed novels with the gritty and uproarious tale of a Brooklyn P.I.
